Infinity Mirror Part Four: Invocation

In which one corner of the puzzle reveals itself. Featuring: a near-admission, a treasure hunt, a little self.

Episode description: This girl tells stories.

Episode Overview
Here there be monsters.

Trigger Warnings

 * Unreality, loud noise, anxiety attacks, distortion, screaming, torture, ableism, death.























Episode Summary
Directly after the phone call from "Becca and Mabel," Tressa Loses Her Goddamn Mind, repeating that she's too old to be thrown into an adventure like this; in stories, it only happens to children. After reasoning through what's happening to her ("I am trapped. In a house. That might belong to a podcaster’s grandmother, and might be. A fucking. Faerie house from a story. Either someone is playing a - Jesus, an incredibly detailed and, and complicated joke on me, or. I was talking to two. Characters. Who shouldn’t even -"), she decides to attempt to physically map out the house.

The house traps her in a loop of three rooms: The kitchen, the dining room, and the Green Parlor, meaning she cannot map the entire place out. After getting into a fight with the House over the loop, she sits down in the dining room, where she looks at her instruction paper again. It asks her who Lara Ouvriers is. Tressa explains that her mom died when Tressa was six, and since her father couldn't take care of her due to working at Amtrak, she ended up getting sent to Lang Primary Conservatory for the Disabled, which she mentions was once referred to as Lang Primary Conservatory for Crippled Children; this is presumably meant to symbolize the act of covering up less-than-pristine history. Lara Ouvriers was her principal, who she describes as looking exactly like Aurora Silver's description from The Consort.

Tressa says that after she took the ring from Larissa, she began getting called into Lara's office, where the woman would ask her strange questions. She eventually witnessed the cult sacrificing the Mourning Dove in an attempt to summon the King of the Underhill. The paper tells her to head to the Green Parlor, where she finds a dollhouse of the House, with a minature figure of herself inside.



Continuity
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 * The dollhouse was based on one Tressa owned in childhood.
 * The Mourning Dove being a child seems to match with Mabel being called "the starling" by the Court.











Trivia
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 * tressa davies u mystify me